6 months is a significant moment in a child’s life, because usually at this age children begin to sit without support and crawl. These skills give them new opportunities to explore the world around them, because now they can see objects from a vertical position and reach them while crawling. What games can you play with a 6 month old baby?
1. Games with objects. The baby already knows how to hold a rattle well in one hand, transfer it to the other, shake it, and knock it. Put the toys in a box, let the baby pull them out, study them, show him how to knock an object on the floor, on a box, or on another toy. Teach him to knock two objects against each other. Focus your child's attention on the fact that each rattle rings differently. Place the box with toys in front of the baby, then on the side, behind and say: look for the box on the right, left, behind, this will develop the baby’s orientation.
2. Games with a scarf. Diversify the favorite game of all kids, “Peek-a-boo,” by adding a scarf to it. Hide your face behind the scarf, and then, throwing it back, say “peek-a-boo” to the baby, then hide the baby under the scarf, appear and say “peek-a-boo.” Hide toys under the scarf and show them how to find them. Let the baby try to steal the scarf himself. This game develops the concept that objects exist independently of each other.
3. Teach your child to throw objects. Place a wide bucket or basin, and let him throw different objects from different materials into it (rattles, filled balls, wooden cubes, soft ones), draw the baby’s attention to the fact that all objects fall into the basin with a different sound. Many children, having mastered the skill of throwing, love to throw toys out of the playpen and then demand that they be returned in order to throw them again. Tie a string to the toy and attach it to the crib; teach your baby to pull the string to return the toy after throwing it away.
4. Listening to music. different rhythms, performed by different musical instruments, conduct with him to waltzes and marches, so the child will develop his hearing.
5. Babies love to swing on an adult's leg. Complete this fun with funny nursery rhymes and jokes about a horse: “Let's gallop and gallop on a horse,” “I love my horse,” etc.
6. Help your baby explore his body, play with him in finger games , not only on the arms, but also on the legs. Explore body and face parts together.
7. Pyramid game. Of course, a baby at 6 months will not yet be able to fold a pyramid, but he can remove the rings from the pin. Describe the color and size of each ring. You can put rings from different pyramids of different sizes on the pin.
8. Bath games. Show your baby how to fill and pour water from cups, how water flows from a tap, let the baby hold his hands under the stream and try to draw water into a glass with your help. Teach your baby the concepts of cold and hot by switching the water in the tap. Play in the bathtub bubble, blow bubbles onto the bathtub and let the child burst them.
9. Game "Blow-Blow". Teach your baby to blow, show him how to take air into his mouth, puff out his cheeks, when he learns, then blow on a feather, on balloon, on a scarf made of thin gauze fabric. This game develops the baby's lungs and stimulates speech.
10. Develop your child's tactile skills. Let him touch the surrounding objects, while telling him their name, color, shape and property. For example, feel how smooth the ball is, it’s round and red.
12. Develop your baby's speech. At 6 months, children begin to say the syllables: “dya-dya”, “ba-ba”, “ma-ma”, repeat them after the baby, show photographs of dad, mother, grandmother: Here is a woman, here is a mother, here is a dad, etc. d.
Play and engage with your baby more often; at this age, children need your attention more than ever. Be sure to ensure the safety of the space for exploration and play, do not leave the baby unattended, and do not let him play with small objects and parts.
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By six to seven months, your baby has made great achievements: he is already confidently rolling over from his stomach to his back and from his back to his stomach, sitting without support and actively trying to crawl. If you support him under the chest, he will step with his legs - this is how he prepares to take the first independent step.
At eight months, the child crawls well, sits up and lies down independently; stands up, clinging to support. His movements become more and more precise and purposeful: at six months he can grab objects with one hand and swing a rattle, at seven he transfers a toy from one hand to the other, at eight he tries to clap his hands, and at nine he is already able to collect small objects or take the cubes out of the box. Your baby spends more and more time awake. What would you like to play with him? Maybe practice your fingers?
Speech therapists and psychologists never tire of repeating that the development of speech is directly related to the development of fine motor skills. The fact is that the speech areas of the brain are formed under the influence of impulses coming from the fingers.
At six months, the baby can already play with a pyramid. For now, however, he will only remove the rings, and you will put them on the rod again and again. Usually it is advised to wear rings only in the “correct” order - from largest to smallest. But you can try other options: for example, assembling a “self-propelled structure.” Place large rings on both ends of the rod and small ones in the middle. Secure the structure with the tip of the pyramid so that the rings do not fall. Now you can roll the pyramid to each other on the floor, and then take it apart again into rings. Be sure to comment on your baby’s actions: “Dasha took off her ring. She took off another ring. Dasha took off All rings! No more rings."
If you happen to have two pyramids (for some reason, relatives and friends really like to give these toys to kids), you can build an almost real racing car in five minutes. In big plastic bottle Carefully make four holes from under the water or kvass, into which then insert two rods from the pyramids (these will be the axes). We put two wheels on each axle, and the car is ready to travel around the apartment.
When your child grabs food with his hands, licks his fingers, unfastens the diaper he has just put on and picks his nose, let it be a consolation for you to think that by doing so the young researcher is developing fine motor skills. If it annoys you, provide a worthy alternative.
You can, for example, give away an unnecessary bag or shirt with a large zipper. However, be careful not to let your baby's fingers get caught in it. Children usually enjoy opening and closing Velcro fasteners, especially if the fastener is hidden under the flap. interesting picture or applique. If you have a Velcro pocket on some clothing, hide a small toy in it and show your baby how to get it out. Well-known American pediatricians W. and M. Serz write that their six-month-old son Matthew loved to explore the breast pocket of his father's shirt, because he invariably found a fountain pen there.
Teach your child to flip through the pages of first cardboard and then regular books, tap the piano keys with his finger, take off his socks, wring out a small cloth or sponge in the bath - all this helps develop fine motor skills.
At the age of six to seven months, the kitchen often becomes the most attractive place in the house. Firstly, my mother most often comes here and creates something terribly interesting in her pots and pans, from which breathtaking smells emanate. And secondly, there are so many different jars, boxes and caps here that it’s simply dizzying! But is it possible to play with it? Certainly! Any kitchen will probably have:
Do not try to overwhelm your child with toys in the hope that he will leave you alone for a long time, sorting out his treasures. At this age, the baby can only play with one or two toys. And when he gets bored with them, you replace them with new ones.
Psychologists believe that in order to develop orientation in space, it is useful to place toys at some distance from the baby so that he can reach them by pulling them towards him. You can also tie ribbons about 30-50 cm long to the toys, then the possibilities of manipulating the toys will increase. It is better to use ribbons or braid made from natural fabrics (it’s great if they have different textures - silk, velvet, cotton braid, lace). Nylon tapes are too hard, and children usually don't like them very much.
Let's hide the toy bunny so that some part of it remains in sight (we cover it, for example, with a diaper or a light blanket). At first, it is better to hide the toy in front of the baby. Found? Great! Now let's get creative and hide the bunny at the moment when the child turns away, but we will still leave some small part of the toy in sight. Where is the bunny? The task has become more difficult. If you didn’t manage to cope with it the first time, don’t be upset, and even more so, don’t scold your baby. At 7-8 months, he solves an important question: what happens to objects when they are not visible. A certain image is imprinted in his memory.
This game, surprisingly, prepares the baby for the first separations. In order to let go of his mother, the child needs confidence that his mother will definitely return, that she is not gone forever. And for this, his mother’s image must be preserved in his memory.
Then you can try to hide behind some kind of cover and call the baby. If he couldn't find you right away, look out of your hiding place and call him again. Hurray, mom has been found!
The importance of crawling is difficult to overestimate, although parents often do not pay special attention to this stage. It is with the help of crawling that the baby first begins to move independently in space. But in order for him to do this, it is necessary to provide him with space to move! A child who is in a crib or playpen all day simply does not have the opportunity to crawl. The best place for a baby from six months and older - gender.
However, providing the ability to crawl is not everything. You need to create a need for crawling, and in addition to special exercises, games will help with this, as always. Remember how at 4-5 months your baby learned to grab a toy hanging on a ribbon (we talked about this in detail in the last issue). This experience will now be useful to him in mastering a new skill. Maybe he'll enjoy chasing a centipede on a string? Bring it closer to the baby at arm's length, and then slowly move it away a little. Happened? Let your baby feel the joy of victory, sincerely praise him for a successful “hunt” and, of course, give him a fair catch. If he couldn't reach the toy, try again and again. You will definitely succeed!
Next stage: toy relay race. Place several toys on the floor at some distance from each other (the distance is determined solely by the capabilities of your baby). Draw your child's attention to the toys and encourage him to crawl from one object to another.
When your baby crawls more confidently, you can play in a tunnel made from a large cardboard box. First, roll a ball through it, and then invite the child to crawl through the tunnel himself.
In the second half of the year, the style of communication between a child and an adult changes fundamentally. If in the first six months it was an exclusively emotional connection, now the baby and the adult, so to speak, also become business partners. Of course, the emotional connection remains, and the baby will be happy to communicate with you, sit in your arms, accept your love and give you his own. But, in addition to attention and affection, from now on he expects cooperation and active participation from you. joint activities. For example, a child throws a toy and smiles happily, waiting for you to pick it up and hand it to him. They picked it up and handed it over. Throw again with a smile on his lips. Don't be annoyed, the baby is not doing this to test the strength of your nerves, he is only inviting you to play. Other times he will hand you a toy and expect you to not only take it, but also play with him.
Try to respond sensitively to your child’s calls, and he will definitely appreciate it!
Inessa Smyk
The first six months flew by instantly - and now your baby has grown noticeably. Now the baby needs new games that would help him develop his intellect and emotions. We suggest you take into account a few useful game scenarios from Penny Warner's book "160 educational games for children from birth to three years", which are ideal for entertaining (and learning!) the baby during the second half of his life.
Many parents claim that the second half of a child’s life is a much more interesting, eventful and educational time. After all, the range of his capabilities is noticeably expanding by this time - he can already roll over, sit down, crawl, and is about to stand on his feet and take his first steps... The baby is actively exploring the world, sincerely enjoying everything new, trying to communicate and interact with others. It would be a sin not to use all these skills so as not to develop new abilities in your child! And there is no better and more exciting way to do this - than a game...
Even a small child has a sense of rhythm! He enjoys banging and making noise, and these skills can be used to make him an amateur drummer. Here are some ways to have fun with improvised drums.
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What do we have to do:
Game options. Sit the child on the floor, place all the “tools” in front of him at once and give him the opportunity to explore them independently. Make him a tambourine by covering a round box with parchment paper and teach him to hit it with a small wooden spoon.
Safety. Make sure your child does not hit himself or others with his drumsticks.
Isn’t it amazing to watch how these little fingers pick up some tiny particles from the carpet, although just recently they were practically incapable appendages?! Give those tireless fingers a chance to work by offering to play with peas.
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Game options. You can replace the peas with frozen pieces of fruit, but be careful that they are not small enough for your child to choke on.
Safety. Keep an eye on your baby while playing. He may choke if he puts too many peas in his mouth at once.
When your baby begins to move around the room, you can make his journey more interesting by building a “tunnel”. He will discover new way movement, and at the end of the “tunnel” a surprise awaits him! All you need is a large box.
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Game options. Place the child on the floor and cover him with a box. Look at it from above, then put the box away and say, “Peek-a-boo!”
Safety. The box must be large enough. Do not leave the child alone in the box so that he does not get scared.
Your little one becomes SuperBaby by taking to the air with the help of the world's strongest knees - yours. All children love to fly like birds!
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Game options. You can place your baby on your shins rather than your feet. You can turn his head in the other direction to change the view.
Safety. Hold your baby firmly and make sure he is balanced. Move slowly, without jerking, so that he feels safe during the “flight”.
At this stage, the child tries to understand how the world works. "Bowl in a Bowl" is a game that you can play together in the kitchen. While you are preparing a meal for your baby, he can improve his new skills!
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Game options. You can purchase a set of nesting cubes or bowls at a toy store. To make it even more interesting, offer your child a set of nesting dolls so that when he opens one nesting doll, he will find another inside it. You can make a similar set of items yourself by choosing suitable boxes of different sizes.
Safety. Be sure to use plastic rather than glass or metal objects for this game to prevent your child from getting hurt. If these are wooden nesting dolls, make sure that the baby does not break them, splinter them, or drag them into his mouth.
It's time to get ready for your first birthday! The Blow the Breeze game will teach your little one a useful skill needed to blow out his first birthday candle.
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Game options. Place a straw in a cup of milk and show your baby how to make bubbles. Or have a blowing contest: sit opposite your child and blow on an object, moving it towards him. When your child blows the object back towards you, blow on it again. Repeat until the item flies off the table.
Safety. Make sure your child does not swallow small objects.
Take your little one on a journey to the Land of Sensations, letting them explore the wonders of the material world. Crawling through this new territory will expand his horizons and stimulate his senses.
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Game options. Instead of letting your baby crawl on different materials, wrap him in them. Give him time to feel each material before removing and replacing with a new one. Talk to your child about these materials as you play.
Safety. Do not leave your baby unattended. He may try to put something in his mouth and choke.
We build and we break
When your baby learns to build towers, he will love breaking them! Have fun together by erecting buildings to be demolished!
What you will need:
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What do we have to do:
Game options. Instead of cubes, you can use household items. You can build towers from toys, books, boxes, crackers - any objects that can be placed one on top of the other.
Safety. If you use something else instead of blocks, make sure that these objects are not too heavy and could not cause injury to the child when the tower is destroyed.
Not just a tiny little lump, but already a fully grown man who can do a lot of things, but he still has so much unknown ahead of him! He will have to hone his acquired skills and learn new ones. At six months, the baby enters the so-called era of the crawler and rodent, and the task of caring parents is to help him develop, give him the opportunity to realize his potential, and for this he will have to try and devote a lot of time to the baby. So, how to develop a child at 6 months? Read on, this article is devoted specifically to this issue.
Six months is a kind of anniversary, to which the baby “arrives” with a weight of 6500-7200 g and a height of 63-67 cm (average figures). B can crawl, babble, repeat previously heard sounds, and pick up toys and objects. Moreover, he really likes to throw the latter in different directions, and then watch where everything fell. Some babies at this time are already trying to stand, holding onto the back of the bed or their mother. What needs to be done next to develop a child at 6 months correctly and efficiently?
The role of physical development at this age is difficult to overestimate, and therefore encourage the baby to crawl as much as possible, and not on a flat surface, but with obstacles. To do this, sit down on the floor yourself and have the child climb over your legs (stimulate with a bright toy located further away). If your legs are no longer difficult for your baby, then build an obstacle course from blankets and pillows. During these activities, you can turn on music and crawl with your child, which will also give you a good mood.
How to develop a child at 6 months in a way that is not only useful, but also interesting? It's simple! At this age, kids love to open cabinets and bedside tables, explore the contents of boxes and baskets, take everything out of there, and then put it back. This natural desire must be supported! Make sure that the items that your baby will fidget with are different shapes, all kinds of colors, sizes. Then in the process they will develop and spatial representations, and tactile perception, and
Time in the bathroom can also be usefully spent. Don't know how to develop a 6 month old baby while bathing? Read on, it's simple. Sit your baby in the bathtub (if he can’t sit well, use a special seat), let him enjoy the view, and then begin interesting and useful activities. Let your child squeeze out a sponge, pop soap bubbles, and catch rubber toys that jump out of the water.
Suitable toys for a six-month-old baby would be jars with lids. Tin containers for tea or coffee are perfect. These jars are light, fun to knock on, and come in different shapes. Stock up on these items and start playing. Remove the lids from the jars and place them in front of the baby. Of course, for a child at this age it is still very difficult to choose the necessary lids, but inquisitive children will collect at least one pair so that they can then simply open and close them with their little fingers. You can put a toy in the jar and close it slightly. The baby will try his best to get to the desired object, which will build confidence in the little man in his abilities, in himself, and cultivate perseverance.
This can be done in several ways.
You say it's too early? Nothing like this! If you are already thinking about how to develop a child at 6 months correctly, then take this advice into account. Place semolina on a tray or other suitable surface for this activity. Show your baby as many lines, circles and other images as possible. One drawback is that you won’t keep such a picture as a keepsake, but you can easily take photographs of “masterpieces.”
Today's market offers a huge range of toys for children. Caring parents do not spare any money for this good deed, but they often forget to think about the quality of the product offered. Don’t forget, the baby will touch, lick, and chew this item. Therefore, be sure to inquire about the availability of a quality certificate. Do not buy small, fragile toys. At this age, cubes, pyramids,
The most important thing is to surround your child with care and attention, spare no time for him, and the results of your joint games and entertainment will give you confidence in yourself and your abilities.
Six month old baby: what a baby can do, educational games, features
Six month old baby: developmental features, what a child can do at 6 months, games and exercises, toys.
Each month of the first year of life is a special stage of development in which the child takes a new step. A six months- this is also a transition to a new stage of life - the second half of the first year of the baby’s life begins. At this age, only the affection and attention of an adult is no longer enough for the baby. For his development, “business” communication with his mother in situations of playing with toys and objects becomes very important. This is a new level of communication and social development of the baby, in which new qualities and skills of the child appear, and his intellect develops. If the baby remains at the previous level (only emotional communication and affection, smiles, touches), then this adversely affects the characteristics of both social development and the development of the child’s sensorimotor intelligence. Then the child begins to lag behind in development.
In the article you will find basic, basic exercises for six month old babies, which will help prevent many possible deviations in the development of the baby and will allow him to develop those skills that develop precisely during this period of the child’s life. These are the exercises that their mothers and grandmothers have been doing with their children for decades; they were taught to parents in mother’s schools at children’s clinics. And now few people know about them. Now it has become fashionable among some parents to consider these exercises unnecessary (“he’ll talk and learn to crawl without exercise”) and focus on “learning letters and numbers” from the cradle, developing “genius.” And with this approach, which is gaining more and more popularity, the number of children lagging behind normal development and children with neuroses and emotional problems, with serious speech problems is growing catastrophically! And the norms of child development began to be restructured to suit these fashion trends. So, now children who speak 12 words a year and are fluent in walking by this time are considered almost geniuses. Although previously this was the norm, and if a child did not achieve this by the age of one year, then this was already considered a developmental delay. It's worth thinking about!
If you don’t chase “genius” (which, by the way, school age turns out to be not genius at all and does not justify the invested efforts of the parents), but by giving the child fertile soil for harmonious, timely development, then you can raise a wonderful, healthy, happy, active, independent, inquisitive baby and avoid many problems with his physical and mental health. What I wish for you all and how I can help you with this article :)! After all, all the exercises and approaches that are given in it are based on many years of research into the development of children by domestic doctors, psychologists and teachers, and their effectiveness has been proven by decades of practice in the development of children.
What a child can do by the beginning of the period - by 6 months - we already know. We talked about this in the article
A six-month-old baby is interested in the sounds of the human voice, carefully watches the lips and facial expressions of the speaking mother. He loves to repeat different sounds in his babble, imitates sounds heard from adults in roll call games. The similarity of the sounds pronounced by the baby with the sounds of native speech gradually increases. The sounds i, u, o begin to appear more often in the child’s babble.
At the age of six months, the baby can clearly hear the syllable he pronounces and repeats it many times.
Every mother needs to know this: In deaf children, humming (extending vowel sounds) and hooting appear at the same time as in hearing children. But babbling (babbling is the repetition of not individual sounds, but the syllables ba-ba-ba, ma-ma-ma, cha-cha-cha, etc.) does not arise due to lack of hearing. Therefore, it is very important to monitor your child’s development and remember whether he started babbling on time! And promptly inform the doctor who is observing your baby about this. Sometimes deaf children do not receive timely help because... mothers do not know that active humming in the first months of life does not mean good hearing for the baby!
How to develop speech imitation in a 6-month-old child?
It is impossible to develop in a six-month-old baby the ability to imitate the speech of an adult without close emotional contact. The child will not imitate strangers or the speaker from the so-called “educational video on speech development for babies”! And he can’t! He needs his mother's voice! Therefore, I really don’t recommend wasting time on such pseudo-developmental videos, after which many children’s speech lags behind in their development, but actually useful exercises developing speech, the ability to imitate sounds native language And
preventing speech disorders. Babbling – this is a kind of speech exercise for a child, which strengthens the speech apparatus and promotes it proper development
. Be sure to use a lot of nursery rhymes when communicating with your six-month-old baby! Nursery rhymes have a unique significance in the development of speech of six-month-old babies, because... they often repeat words and syllables from baby babble - tili-tili, tu-tu-tu, gu-gu-gu and others. Moreover, these syllables are repeated in a strong position, in which it is easier and easier for the child to hear them and isolate them from the speech stream. This will also contribute to the development of babbling in the baby. Talking to a six month old baby
draw out slowly drawn-out vowel sounds: “So my little sun has woken up. I woke up and stretched! What a stretch!”, speak slowly, pausing between your phrases. When naming different toys and objects, also draw out vowel sounds, helping your child learn to listen to your speech: “What a bell!” The bell rings: diiiiin-diiiiin-diiiiin"
Exercise "Roll Call" This– a fun game with the syllables and sounds of your native language with the help of your mother. Without roll calls, it is almost impossible to formulate imitation of sounds in a child.
Roll call- this is a kind of dialogue between a mother and a child, in which the mother repeats the sounds and syllables of his babble after the baby, and then pauses for the child to answer. After this, the mother tells the child other syllables, and the baby repeats after her.
The ability to imitate mother's syllables is not achieved immediately. At first, the baby simply looks carefully at the mouth of the speaking adult and does not repeat anything. This is normal, because he still cannot understand what the new game Mom suggests. The baby may respond to his mother by silently moving his lips and making different movements with his mouth. This is also normal. Start stretching out the vowels, exaggerating their articulation - aaa, ooo, uuu, pause, speak with different voice strengths, different pitches and different intonations. Be sure to pause so that the baby watching you can respond to you, if not with a sound or syllable, then at least with a movement of his mouth.
Rules for conducting roll calls for the development of speech imitation in a six-month-old child:
The best time for developing the ability to imitate adult speech in six-month-old children is while they are awake after sleep, about half an hour after waking up.
At 6 months, the child begins to understand the speech of a close adult. He listens to the words and pays attention to what his mother says. To develop this skill, we will regularly play the “Where...” game with the baby.
Game "Where...?"
To develop understanding of speech, do exercises with a six-month-old baby, encouraging him to turn his head and look for the object called - “Where is the tick-tock clock? Where is the dog aw-aw? Where is the pussy meow meow?”
Very important: Items for this game must ALWAYS be in the same specific location in the room.
When the baby begins to easily navigate words and objects, play with new objects in the child’s room and the words that represent them. Ask: “Where is mom? Where is Dad? Where is the woman? Where is grandfather?”, introduce other words.
Game “Where is the light?”
When the light comes on in the room (chandelier or table lamp), the child always turns his head towards the light source. This moment can be used for play. Ask: “Alyonushka! Where is the light? Wow, that's a fire!" You can turn off and light the lamp again by asking the question “Where is the light?” And joyfully exclaiming “Wooooow the light” when the light appears.
From 6 months you can start teaching your baby show, at your request, simple movements in games - “okay”, “goodbye”, “how big”! And offer to repeat them.
Crawl- This most important species movements for six month old babies.
With a six-month-old baby, it is very important to carry out games and exercises that encourage him to crawl. To stimulate crawling, attract the child by showing a toy, name it, call the child by name, encourage him to crawl to the toy. As soon as the baby crawls to the toy, they give him the opportunity to play with it.
You can play hide and seek, then hiding the toy, then showing it and encouraging him to crawl to it. With six-month-old children you can already play “I’ll catch up, I’ll catch up” so that the baby, laughing, crawls away from you, and you “catch up” with him. Moreover, the pace of crawling in “catch-up” should increase - you catch up faster and faster, and the baby changes the speed of crawling.
Some parents say that their child did not crawl at all, but walked, as expected, at one year. According to foreign data, this situation now occurs in 15% modern families(D. Hopkin - Itogi magazine, 1998) Yes, this happens if the baby is simply not given the opportunity to crawl on various reasons(no space in the room due to poor living conditions of the family; fear of parents that they will hurt themselves; restricting the child’s movements for their own convenience - this way life is safer and there will be no unnecessary problems). But the absence of crawling is an unfavorable development option for a child.
Crawling is important not in itself, but how necessary stage in the development of a six-month-old child. Crawling develops and strengthens the muscles of the legs, arms, back, abdominals, neck, helps to form correct posture, strengthens the vestibular apparatus, activates metabolism and allows the child to grow and develop well. Crawling significantly affects the child’s behavior - he becomes more independent and mobile, more active, which is important for cognitive development baby.
Therefore, prepare in advance and provide your six-month-old baby with a safe space in which he can crawl with pleasure, and you will be calm about him.
Games with a six month old baby to stimulate crawling
Game "I'll Catch Up"
Tell your child “I’ll catch up” and imitate a chase, encouraging him to quickly crawl away from you. Having caught up with the child, take him in your arms, hug him, and play a fun game. And again repeat the game of catch-up with crawling. Change the pace of your movements.
With these simple exercises you will develop your baby's ability to crawl easily and freely in different directions and at different paces.
Game "Gurney"
Take a bright toy on wheels (a gurney measuring 20-25 cm) and place it at a distance of 1 meter from the baby. Push the gurney closer to the child so that he can crawl to it and get the toy. When the baby takes out the toy, let him play with it a little, and again roll the toy half a meter away, encouraging the baby to crawl towards it.
At 6 months The baby can sit, holding the backrest and maintaining balance. But he still doesn’t know how to sit down on his own; adults help him with this. When sitting, many six-month-old babies support themselves by resting their hands on the floor. Only by 8 months The child will be able to sit independently without support for 10 minutes and play with toys during this time. You should not place your child in pillows ahead of time, this harms the spine!
There is an opinion among pediatric researchers that children who are started to sit down prematurely later prefer to sit rather than move, and engage less with toys than their peers. This opinion is worth listening to. Six months is not the time for a baby to sit comfortably for adults, but for his active crawling and independent exploration of space, which is uncomfortable for adults.
Very important: It is advisable that the baby first learns to crawl, and only then learns to sit down, since crawling prepares the child’s body for sitting and walking.
For more details on how a baby learns to sit, as well as gymnastics to develop the ability to sit down and a sense of balance, see the article
From six months you can and should do this with your baby special exercises, developing his legs and preparing the child for standing and walking. These exercises develop not only muscles, but also a sense of balance. All exercises are done accompanied by rhythmic songs, pestles, nursery rhymes, and poems. You can choose any nursery rhymes that you like and bring pleasure to your child.
An approximate list of exercises for six-month-old children:
Six month old baby can manipulate a toy without looking at it, but while looking at some other object.
A 6-month-old child is improving his actions with objects. You need to encourage him to look at toys, wave them, knock, put in and take out parts of toys, listen to the sound made by a toy, roll, tap, pull, throw away, tap and do other actions with toys. It is through practical activities with toys and examining objects that not only motor skills develop, but also the baby’s intelligence.
At six months you can already teach your child to imitate the most simple actions adult(roll a ball, take a cube out of a box, turn over a bucket of toys, put a handkerchief in a drawer, pull a string, etc.). For this:
In games with objects, always name their name, action, and characteristics of the object.(big, fluffy, red, beautiful, etc.). This helps develop the prerequisites for speech in a child, and in the future will help him speak very quickly and well.
Exercise “Toy on a Ribbon”
Take any bright sounding toy. You can sew it yourself by putting a bell inside, or take a ready-made one. Tie it firmly with a bright satin ribbon. Tie a plastic ring to the other end of the ribbon (you can buy such a ring in the “Everything for Sewing” department or in the “Haberdashery”). The distance from the ring to the toy is approximately 1 meter.
Place the ring at arm's length from your child. Show me how to act like a ring. The baby crawls up to the ring, pulls it, and begins to move it in different directions. At the same time, the sound of the toy is heard. There is no need to interfere - let the baby figure out where the sound is coming from and how to get it. If he doesn’t succeed, then show him again where the sound comes from, put a ring in the baby’s hand and pull the ring (“hand in hand”).
For this game, each time you need to tie a ribbon to new toy– rattling, rustling, ringing, etc. You can tie a ribbon to a bell and show how you can pull the ribbon in different ways to make the bell ring (back and forth, right - left, in a circle, up - down).
For six-month-old babies and children a little older, there is a wonderful series of mother games with a ball suspended on a string (author - F. Froebel).
You can find these ball games for kids in pictures and diagrams in the article
A six-month-old child can independently engage with a toy for about 1-2 minutes or more (up to 5 minutes).
Keg game
). Small items are always tied with colored ribbon. The end of the colored tape is on the outside. Small objects cannot be used in play with a six-month-old baby, because... It is not safe! In this video you will find very good material
3. Development of independence and neatness at six months At 6 months a child can
eat from a spoon. At 6-7 months you can start teaching your child holding it with his hands. Place the child on your lap, bring a cup to his lips and offer him a drink. The baby can already drink a portion (the cup should contain a small amount of liquid or liquid food)
From 6 months you can start trying to solve the problem potty training a child. Why so “early”?
First. At this age, it is easier to train a baby than at a later age. Although full control over natural functions is formed in a child at 2.5 - 3 years. So it's up to you to decide when to start. But we must understand that the later it is, the more difficult it is, the more protest the child has, who cannot understand where this potty came from and how to learn to control his body? And no “sounding” pots help!
Second. Why at this age? Of course, there are diapers. But have you tried them yourself? No? Then try it - walk around in the summer in the best and most expensive “breathable” diapers for adults, or sleep in them at night in a warm room, and you will understand how the child feels in them. You will say - have you, the author of the article, tried it? Unfortunately, yes, I had to experience it when I was in the hospital. And I will never believe that they are “breathable” anymore. And the doctor at the hospital said the following words: “I would like every mother, before putting a diaper on her baby, to put it on herself and walk in them for a week. Then she would understand everything.” According to my own feelings, this is terrible! How there are poor children in them who do not yet know how to speak and therefore cannot even ask us for anything!
I quote the opinion of a well-known specialist who does not make money from advertising and therefore writes his true opinion - S. Teplyuk (book “Child from birth to one year” - published in 2013):
Our grandmothers began potty training their babies at 2.5-3 months. To do this, they held the babies over the potty, developing a conditioned reflex. And from 6 months, when the child could no longer sit for long, they began to teach him to be neat and put him on the potty for a very short time. It is considered sufficient to prevent “embarrassment” by planting on the potty at the following times:
Secrets of success:
In any case, learning to be neat does not happen right away; you need to be patient and know that the results will be undulating - then everything is fine, then we return to where we started.
Toys used for a six-month-old child must be different textures and from different materials (for the development of tactile sensitivity), as well as all the colors of the rainbow(red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet).
Preferred materials are fabric, plastic, wood, rubber.
Babies from six months and older need toys that can change their appearance – with moving elements, ropes for pulling parts, with rotating parts. He will also enjoy a fun toy, such as pecking chickens or Bogorodsk carved wooden bears or a bunny on a swing.
Choose toys so that your baby has the same names of toys, but different in color or size(For example, a big ball and a small ball, a red big car and a green big car)
From six months the child really needs story toys– bunny, bear, doll, parsley, pussy and others.
Any toy should give a six-month-old baby the opportunity to examine it and find something funny, interesting, exciting in it, and awaken his active actions with it.
An approximate list of toys for a six-month-old baby:
Sing to the child musical melodies of different nature - cheerful, sad, calm and cheerful. Let him listen to the sound of musical instruments, recorded music. Make movements with your baby in accordance with the nature of the music.
Learn to look for the source of the sound. To do this, play musical instrument in different places in the room, encouraging the baby to turn towards the source of the sound.
Be sure to listen to classical and folk music. For example, you can play horses (R. Schumann “The Brave Rider”), dance to audio recordings of Russian folk melodies.
You can give serious classical music to listen to - this includes the music of J.S. Bach, and V.A. Mozart and A. Vivaldi and other famous composers. Listen to music with your child while your baby's attention is maintained. The first musical impressions leave a mark on a child for life!
By the end of the month the child:
From the article you learned about the features of development six month old baby and his upbringing. You will learn about the further development of the child from the article
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